Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public health
The geographic locations where Americans live are shifting in ways that can negatively affect the quality of their drinking water.
The geographic locations where Americans live are shifting in ways that can negatively affect the quality of their drinking water.
Environment
May 24, 2019
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In materials science, achromatic optical components can be designed with high transparency and low dispersion. Materials scientists have shown that although metals are highly opaque, densely packed arrays of metallic nanoparticles ...
Charitable and humanitarian organizations are increasingly tapping into a $30 billion crowdfunding market, not only to raise funds but to build donors' trust by being more transparent, according to research from Indiana University's ...
Economics & Business
Apr 15, 2019
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Uber could become a $100 billion company with a massive share offering that will be a bellwether for tech startups looking toward Wall Street.
Business
Apr 10, 2019
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Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow's trendy building material. Today, scientists report a new kind of transparent wood that not only ...
Materials Science
Apr 3, 2019
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Research led by Professor Ton Peijs of WMG at the University of Warwick and Professor Cees Bastiaansen at Queen Mary University of London, has devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that ...
Polymers
Apr 1, 2019
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No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men.
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2019
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Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes.
Condensed Matter
Feb 27, 2019
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US lawmakers opened a debate Tuesday over privacy legislation in the first step by Congress toward regulation addressing a series of troublesome data protection abuses by tech firms.
Internet
Feb 26, 2019
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A team of physicists headed by Professor Sebastian Reineke of TU Dresden has developed a new method of storing information in fully transparent plastic foils. Their innovative idea has been published in Science Advances.
General Physics
Feb 4, 2019
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